Hello.

I have noticed that the sockpuppet group Category:Sockpuppets of Anonymous

Hong Kong Photographer 1 has uploaded a large amount of files with incorrect file
names (with irrelevant abbreviations and wrong place/station names), and they have
also added irrelevant categories in various files that they uploaded. As moving
requires a lot of work here on Commons, I would like to raise attention and request
for assistance on this matter. Thank you! (Please {{Ping}} me on reply) --
LuciferianThomas 16:09, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

@LuciferianThomas I enjoy renaming files. Is there any way I can see a list of them
on aggregate? Like a search function for all of them? That would be very useful
since we are operating with multiple users. Immanuelle (please tag me) 22:28, 15
January 2024 (UTC)
There are hundreds of accounts it's kinda insane Immanuelle (please tag me) 22:32,
15 January 2024 (UTC)
Sadly it does seem to be extremely hard to track down every single one of them, but
I would think that it is possible to start from Hong Kong MTR station categories
(e.g. Category:Hang Hau Station) and their subcategories to do them one by one. The
worst thing about it is the mix of authentic and bad file names, so it just can't
be simply done on batch. LuciferianThomas 01:45, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
@LuciferianThomas I'm not sure if I'm knowledgeable enough to do this. I've never
been to Hong Kong and don't know much about the country. Do you think we could add
some kind of maintenance category to all of them? Immanuelle (please tag me)
16:52, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
I honestly am not sure whether they're actually sockpuppets. It's difficult to
believe that one person could be doing all this, it's difficult to believe that
multiple people could be doing something this specific independently, and it's
difficult to believe that an organized endeavor to do this could be kept quiet.DS
(talk) 21:14, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
re @DragonflySixtyseven: The general point being the very consistent naming
conventions (whilst containing incorrect information), most of the sockpuppets
having a very consistent user page style and image description format. Looks too
consistent to be multiple people, yet very true. Anyhow, sock or meatpuppet, they
are still clearly disruptive.
re @Immanuelle: if rules allow, I can definitely start scanning through files and
add maintenance cats since that's how much I can do right now. That is, if someone
endorses my actions so I can link to here whenever questioned. I would really
request for filemover myself to fix the issues but I don't know if I am actually
good to go for the right (As a rough guideline, administrators usually require
editors to have made at least 1,000 useful, non-botlike edits or a large amount of
justified renaming requests at Commons before they will consider granting the
filemover right, maybe I have the latter part?) LuciferianThomas 00:08, 17 January
2024 (UTC)
@LuciferianThomas I feel they would be blocked on Wikipedia, but images are hard
enough to go wrong with that we want the uploads even if the bad itkes case a lot
of issues Immanuelle (please tag me) 06:42, 17 January 2024 (UTC)steps one and
two. Also true for content that is clearly an own product of the magazine staff.
Nowakki (talk) 10:11, 11 January 2024 (UTC)